I ran a speed test this evening. Wow its fast.

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Android and T-Mobile

Everyone knows that Android and Tmobile are today’s hot couple in the tech world. I have had a Tmo G1 (HTC Dream) since around March and I love it. I was originally promised by the people at my local Tmobile shop that 3G would launch in Spokane, WA in April, so I was stoked. However, the real date was August 12 of this year. So for the last few days, I have been loving my new 3G experience. I can now lord over the iPhone owners who feel they have something over me (3G).

However, news lately has said that no future pastry updates will be given to the G1 and that cupcake is it.  Tmoble has claimed that this is not the truth, but frankly I think HTC dropped the ball on the Dream (G1) by not including enough internal flash memory. This puts pressure on developers to find a solution using micro-SDHC technology. If they can find a way of using the sd memory to store system files (assuming you don’t yank the card out while the phone is running) you have limitless room for development of better ROMs.

I have begun to learn Java as a way of proving new apps to the Android marketplace, and I don’t fully understand the complexities of the way the Android system works, so there might be another reason why you cant use the external memory to store system stuff. Oh well, it will be fun to see how the hacker community takes little or no official support for their device. It will be like the AT&T and Samsung dropped support for the Blackjack I at Windows Mobile 6.0, and the hacker community took up arms and developed some sick 6.1 ROMs for that device.

It is all a waiting game…

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Apple still profiting

Turns out Apple is doing well despite my thoughts that without Steve Jobs running the show they would drive into the ground. According to them they are having the “best non-holiday quarter [in terms of] revenue and earnings”. This is happening while thousands are losin their jobs and we are experiencing one of the worse recessions since the great depression. Somehow, they manage to sell plenty of iPods and iPhones despite this.

However, they aparently are not interested in developing a netbook. Stupid Apple.

Engadget has more stuff on it.

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Jailbreaking your 3.0 iPod Touch/iPhone

So a big problem I encountered with jailbreaking my device on 3.0 was the error message:

“Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on essential”

So the way you fix this problem is to rejailbreak the device with redsn0w 0.7.2. When you get the option to install Cydia and/or Icy, select ONLY Cydia and continue with the jailbreak. This will keep Icy on your device and will fix the permissions issues with Cydia.

If you appreciate it, email me about it!
author (at) spilky.com

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MMS/Copy/Paste are upgrades?

Tomorrow is the big day. Apple announces it’s 3.0 software update. There are speculations that this update will be the most innovative of all of the software updates to date! Such Apple innovations such as MMS, background applications and copy/paste features!!!

As you can probably tell, I am speaking ironically, and I have nothing but grievances against Apple’s software on their iPhone and iPod Touch (Family Guy). Granted, they are very well marketed, they are sexy as hell, and have a very functional developer backing… however these things come at great limitations. The developers are shrugged into a corner as to what they can do with the platform and there are arbitrary guidelines in place which limit what they can put in the app store anyway!

Case in point is that recently Tweetie 1.3 was denied from the app store for offensive language on Twitter. That is like banning the Safari app because more than half of the Internet is pornography! Not that censorship of any kind is OK, it just shows that Apple is very wrong in their choices.

Also, how are people excited about copying and pasting… and how are they allowing Apple to get away with giving them copy and paste as a “feature?” That is basic functionality folks… they should be demanding blood for not having it. MMS too. Any phone that is incapable of sending and receiving photos shouldn’t be on sale in America today. If I send a picture of something to someone, they better damn well be able to see it.

For these reasons, I support the iPhone Dev Team and everything they are doing. Granted, you don’t get the same kind of open developing that you get from the Android platform (hopefully that opens up some more as well), but it’s a start. You can at least do unapproved Apple things and submit them to Cydia. Everyone that has an Apple device should unlock their hardware. It belongs to you, you should be able to make the most of what it’s capabilities are. I have an iPod Touch and an HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) and I love the combination of these two devices. They are very powerful together.

I will have another post tomorrow (hopefully!) about the 3.0 update.

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The Cookie is Taunting me

So someone decided to bring cookies in. I had like 6 of them AHHHH. So much for bringing a V8 and a granola bar to have a more “healthy lunch” since I forgot my mac n cheese at home. I might as well go home and eat it too. lol

I need a gym buddy to keep me motivated. Hell, I want it to warm up, I really want to hike/camp this summer.

For the record though, I didnt eat the last cookie. YES! Now to go drink 5000 calories of beer this weekend! Oh no!

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Updated about page

Prepare to lol my peons.

Actually. I don’t want to set you up for disappointment.

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Feels like the Fifth Time!

I would imagine at this point, if there are any frequenters of the Spilky.com way of life, that you are most likely the baddest, hardcore-est, Tyler Spilker fans alive. Since I have deleted, remade, updated, and changed this site repeatedly and have never delivered on the content. Spilky.com is mostly the place where I dump pictures like this just for personal lols:

Today is Tuesday, so that image is irrelevant, but you smiled you old sailor you.

However, I do have a phone that has adequate data capabilities now, a T-Mobile G1, and for you unfortunate souls who have not had the privilege of having such a fantastic phone, let me tell you how deeply sorry I am for your troubled lives and extend a hand of sympathy… but not both hands. I need one to play Pac-Man between text messages.

I guess this is another post to tell you “Hey everyone, I am here, and I *promise* to update more/again” You know I most likely wont… but what if I did???! Oh the fantastic times we can have reading my blog posts. The new web server actually lets me install WordPress on my own, so I have the newest version now, and it is f-ing SLICK. The interface may actually warrant me doing something with this crap!

See you soon!

Also, if anyone wants to do updates, I will gladly give you authorship to spilky.com to post blogs and stuff! Just email me at tspilker then you put an at gonzaga dot edu! (just to avoid the spam harvesters.)

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Yearbook’d

Rofl

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USPS Mail

So I find hand-written mail to be a lot more personal than email. Hell, who doesn’t get excited when they get a piece of legitimate mail that isn’t shredder-fodder? I try to send my girlfriend Kara’s little sisters post cards whenever we travel anywhere because I like to keep that magic that I felt when I got mail alive. I went today to send my friend in Europe a post card today. I went online to figure the postage out, HERE to be exact. I read that it is a flat $0.94 to mail a postcard to this particular country, The Netherlands. I thought to myself “damn, that means I will have to use three $0.42 stamps, giving the government $0.32 they dont deserve. So I thought maybe they offer ten-cent stamps or something of that nature. I arrived at the campus post office, and asked for ninety-four cents postage. To my surprise, the man pulled out a binder, and slapped a ninety-four cent stamp on my postcard.

I was surprised at this denomination

Wow, that is an amazing denomination of stamp. So I figure that rather than give an accurate estimate of the cost to mail a postcard which weighs a little under an ounce with the ink on it, they charge a flat rate to all corners of the earth just to make it easy to print stamps. I found that to be a little annoying. Next time, I will try and use a heavy lead-based ink and soak the post card in iron filings with water so that it rusts and gets heavy.

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